Candidating “fortnight”
Rev. Lissa Gundlach is our candidate
Preaching on April 26 and May 3
I’ve been talking about ways to interact with Lissa
The most important are the three “Town Halls”
This is not the Town Hall Council – that’s next month.
There are (3) Town Hall meetings
moderated by the MSC.
Open to all
ask questions of the candidate.
Join by smartphone or computer or by telephone
Saturday, April 25th 4pm-6pm
Sunday, April 26th 12:30pm-2pm
Saturday, May 2nd 10:30am-12pm
Links are on the church calendar
Voting
Next Sunday, May 3rd,
Worship at 10 a.m., with Reverand Lissa Gundlach
Congregational meeting at 11:30 on Zoom
accommodations for those who don’t use computers.
The voting process is explained in the weekly eBlast,
and in a letter and an email sent to members.
Michael Sallwasser and Jan Seymour-Ford (President and Clerk) will validate the votes
They will announce the votes as well as the percentage.
Our Bylaws require a 90% Yes vote in order to extend a call to a parish minister.
My participation during Candidate Fortnight
I will continue to do these facebook live messages
Tuesday through Sunday at 1pm
But I have plenty of other work to do
Meeting with Finance Committee, etc.
Writing my article for the Advance
2) Message
What is helping you get through this?
People
Friends
My husband
Entertainment
Good television
Good books
Work – Purpose
Attitudes like hope and wonder
But the biggest, general answer is faith
I don’t mean faith as something different from those other things
But faith as the underlying condition of my life
That all those other things stem from
My relationships
My enjoyments
My life purpose
My attitudes
Not faith in a mystical way
But faith as a way of being in the world
A world view
That recognizes that I am part of something larger than myself
And that something larger contains me and supports me
And that my life
And my life’s meaning
Derives from that larger existence
And whatever sense of meaning I think belongs to that larger thing
Where we go astray with the word “faith”
Is assuming that the larger thing must be conceptualized as “God”
Faith in God
Or faith in Lord Jesus
as evangelical Christians say
But anything larger than yourself that contains and supports you can serve
as your object of faith
We are beginning this month, in Islam, the holy month of Ramadan
That’s one way to think about our relationship to something larger than ourself
We just celebrated Earth Day
That’s another way to think about our relationship to something larger than ourself
Or you might just think about this congregation
That’s another thing larger than yourself that contains and supports you.
It is those relationship that form my faith
And it is that faith that is getting me through this.
I offer the same to you.
I’ll see you tomorrow 1pm